Alex de la Pena joined the Brown swimming & diving program
as an assistant coach in August 2013. De la Pena comes to Brown
following a two-year stint as the Head Swimming & Diving Coach
and Director of Aquatic Sports at Monmouth College in Monmouth,
Illinois.

At Monmouth, de la Pena created and planned water workouts as
well as weight room and dryland programs. Additionally, he was
responsible for recruiting, fundraising, budget, team travel and
monitoring academic performance. In the pool, de la Pena coached 23
All-Midwest Conference performances, along with one conference
champion, 19 school records and 88 top ten times in program
history. Most recently, he led the men’s and women’s
team to a third-place finish at the 2013 Midwest Conference
Championship, marking the highest combined finish in team
history.

Before Monmouth, de la Pena served as the assistant swimming
& diving coach at Oberlin College from 2009-2011, where he
coached the team to 11 school records and posted 81 top ten times
in school history. Under de la Pena’s direction, three
swimmers achieved NCAA “B” cut times and one swimmer
qualified for the 2010 NCAA Division III National Meet.

Prior to Oberlin, de la Pena was the assistant swim coach at St.
Lawrence University from 2007-2009 where he helped coach the team
to 6 school records and 63 top 10 times in school history.

A 2007 graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, de la Pena earned a
B.A. in sport management and business. He served as the captain of
the swimming and diving team his junior and senior year and was a
20-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference performer. de la Pena earned a
Master of Education in Education Administration and Leadership from
St. Lawrence in the spring of 2009.